Deficits in Phoneme Segmentation Are Not the Core Problem of Dyslexia: Evidence from German and English Children.

Landerl, Karin; Wimmer, Heinz

Applied Psycholinguistics, v21 n2 p243-62 Jun 2000

Discusses studies of dyslexia in German- and English-speaking children. Argues that deficits in phoneme awareness are only evident in the early stages of reading acquisition, whereas rapid naming and phonological memory deficits are more persistent in dyslexic children. (Author/VWL)